Author: Alison Gopnik
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374229708
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
The Gardener and the Carpenter
Author: Alison Gopnik
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374229708
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374229708
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
Author: Lionel Correa
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059537512X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Lionel Correa, a School Teacher, fakes the death of his wife to collect 3 U.S. life insurance policies that total $676,000. He travels to a remote town in Mexico to fake her death and bribes the town's mayor to conspire with him. He sets up a fake grave and takes pictures of his wife lying in an open casket. When Lionel succeeds, his wife's cousin discovers him and the FBI is alerted and an investigation takes place. The town's mayor gets interviewed and he denies ever knowing Lionel. Before getting arrested, Lionel cashes two life insurance checks and runs south of the border, with thousands of dollars, taking his wife and children with him. Before that, in the midst of his cash withdrawals, his account gets frozen. Find out what happens as the chase continues. Learn how this amazing tale of intrigue, the good life, bribes and luck beyond most people's dreams, become a reality for Lionel. "'I quickly picked up my wife before she could change her mind. I laid her in the open casket.'Okay Honey, close your eyes and pretend to be dead, ' I said as I prepared to take her picture."" -"The Empty Tomb: by Lionel Correa
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059537512X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Lionel Correa, a School Teacher, fakes the death of his wife to collect 3 U.S. life insurance policies that total $676,000. He travels to a remote town in Mexico to fake her death and bribes the town's mayor to conspire with him. He sets up a fake grave and takes pictures of his wife lying in an open casket. When Lionel succeeds, his wife's cousin discovers him and the FBI is alerted and an investigation takes place. The town's mayor gets interviewed and he denies ever knowing Lionel. Before getting arrested, Lionel cashes two life insurance checks and runs south of the border, with thousands of dollars, taking his wife and children with him. Before that, in the midst of his cash withdrawals, his account gets frozen. Find out what happens as the chase continues. Learn how this amazing tale of intrigue, the good life, bribes and luck beyond most people's dreams, become a reality for Lionel. "'I quickly picked up my wife before she could change her mind. I laid her in the open casket.'Okay Honey, close your eyes and pretend to be dead, ' I said as I prepared to take her picture."" -"The Empty Tomb: by Lionel Correa
Carpenter
Queen of Lies
Author: Kel Carpenter
Publisher: Kel Carpenter
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
My second year at Daizlei Academy didn’t kill me. It did something so much worse. It killed her. And the world will never be the same because of it. Anastasia thought she could own me. The Supernatural thought they could control me. They didn’t realize the darkness they courted until the walls of Daizlei came crushing down around us. I always thought of myself as hard. Unbreakable. Unbeatable. Until someone beat me. Now…I was broken and I planned to use all my sharp edges for the one thing I had left. Revenge. **Warning: as the characters mature and grow so does the story. This novel is recommended for readers 16+. Fans of Kelly St. Claire, Elise Nova, Michelle Madow, and Olivia Wildenstein will be enthralled but this young adult urban fantasy romance.**
Publisher: Kel Carpenter
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
My second year at Daizlei Academy didn’t kill me. It did something so much worse. It killed her. And the world will never be the same because of it. Anastasia thought she could own me. The Supernatural thought they could control me. They didn’t realize the darkness they courted until the walls of Daizlei came crushing down around us. I always thought of myself as hard. Unbreakable. Unbeatable. Until someone beat me. Now…I was broken and I planned to use all my sharp edges for the one thing I had left. Revenge. **Warning: as the characters mature and grow so does the story. This novel is recommended for readers 16+. Fans of Kelly St. Claire, Elise Nova, Michelle Madow, and Olivia Wildenstein will be enthralled but this young adult urban fantasy romance.**
Cost
Author: Roxana Robinson
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 1429928093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
THE LUMINOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM "ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" (JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST) When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's son Jack has spiraled into heroin addiction. In an attempt to save him, Julia marshals help from her looseknit clan: elderly parents; remarried ex-husband; removed sister; and combative eldest son. Ultimately, heroin courses through the characters' lives with an impersonal and devastating energy, sweeping the family into a world in which deceit, crime, and fear are part of daily life. Roxana Robinson is the author of Sweetwater, which Booklist called a "hold-your-breath novel of loss and love." Billy Collins praised Robinson as "a master at moving from the art of description to the work of excavating the truths about ourselves." In Cost, Robinson tackles addiction and explores its effects on the bonds of family, dazzling us with her hallmark subtlety and precision in evoking the emotional interiors of her characters. The result is a work in which the reader's sense of discovery and compassion for every character remains unflagging to the end, even as the reader, like the characters, is caught up in Cost's breathtaking pace.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 1429928093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
THE LUMINOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM "ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" (JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST) When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's son Jack has spiraled into heroin addiction. In an attempt to save him, Julia marshals help from her looseknit clan: elderly parents; remarried ex-husband; removed sister; and combative eldest son. Ultimately, heroin courses through the characters' lives with an impersonal and devastating energy, sweeping the family into a world in which deceit, crime, and fear are part of daily life. Roxana Robinson is the author of Sweetwater, which Booklist called a "hold-your-breath novel of loss and love." Billy Collins praised Robinson as "a master at moving from the art of description to the work of excavating the truths about ourselves." In Cost, Robinson tackles addiction and explores its effects on the bonds of family, dazzling us with her hallmark subtlety and precision in evoking the emotional interiors of her characters. The result is a work in which the reader's sense of discovery and compassion for every character remains unflagging to the end, even as the reader, like the characters, is caught up in Cost's breathtaking pace.
The Badger Game
Author: William Norris
Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0744300819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The future of the nation rests on one man’s birthmark. Fulford College is broke. In a desperate attempt to keep its doors open, the Florida based college joins forces with the Mafia to establish a scholarship program. This program, however, comes with a new set of students selected by the Mafia and a secret new curriculum. Little did this liberal arts college know, it was now home to the very first criminal education program in the nation. These brave students are now entering their senior year at Fulford during an election year. This class of well-trained criminals volunteers to work the election: half working for the Democratic campaign and half for the Republican campaign. Using the methods they learned in their sophistry class and other courses in corruption, their assignment is to help rig the presidential election in the Democratic candidate’s favor—Vice President Harold Griswold. But when the vice president is kidnapped and replaced with a doppelgänger, things start to go awry in Washington DC. Who is this man in the White House with Hal Griswold’s face? What is the Mafia up to? And how could one identifiable feature ruin it all?
Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0744300819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The future of the nation rests on one man’s birthmark. Fulford College is broke. In a desperate attempt to keep its doors open, the Florida based college joins forces with the Mafia to establish a scholarship program. This program, however, comes with a new set of students selected by the Mafia and a secret new curriculum. Little did this liberal arts college know, it was now home to the very first criminal education program in the nation. These brave students are now entering their senior year at Fulford during an election year. This class of well-trained criminals volunteers to work the election: half working for the Democratic campaign and half for the Republican campaign. Using the methods they learned in their sophistry class and other courses in corruption, their assignment is to help rig the presidential election in the Democratic candidate’s favor—Vice President Harold Griswold. But when the vice president is kidnapped and replaced with a doppelgänger, things start to go awry in Washington DC. Who is this man in the White House with Hal Griswold’s face? What is the Mafia up to? And how could one identifiable feature ruin it all?
Selected Stories of Morley Roberts
Author: Roberts, Morley
Publisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
ISBN: 1906469539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In a career spanning over 50 years, Morley Roberts wrote hundreds of short stories and was one of the most successful operators in the Victorian-Edwardian literary marketplace. His remarkable imagination and willingness to experiment resulted in tales of sailors on the high seas, adventurers in the Australian bush, cowboys in the wild west, saloon society in frontier towns, tramps on the railroad, miners in the mountains of British Columbia, farmers on the South African veld, and writers in men’s clubs. Whatever the setting, Roberts evokes the dangers and challenges his characters face. With an eye for detail and an unerring skill in capturing the vernacular of the desperate characters he portrays, Roberts leads the reader into vividly-drawn masculine worlds. Markus Neacey acknowledges Roberts’s special contribution to the British short story by selecting the best examples from his extensive work. This edition includes: Critical introductionExtensive explanatory footnotesAuthor biographySuggestions for further readingSelection of contemporary reviewsExtracts from Roberts's interviews with The IdlerExtracts from Roberts's A Tramp's Note-bookThe full text of Roberts's lecture, The Sea in Fiction
Publisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
ISBN: 1906469539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In a career spanning over 50 years, Morley Roberts wrote hundreds of short stories and was one of the most successful operators in the Victorian-Edwardian literary marketplace. His remarkable imagination and willingness to experiment resulted in tales of sailors on the high seas, adventurers in the Australian bush, cowboys in the wild west, saloon society in frontier towns, tramps on the railroad, miners in the mountains of British Columbia, farmers on the South African veld, and writers in men’s clubs. Whatever the setting, Roberts evokes the dangers and challenges his characters face. With an eye for detail and an unerring skill in capturing the vernacular of the desperate characters he portrays, Roberts leads the reader into vividly-drawn masculine worlds. Markus Neacey acknowledges Roberts’s special contribution to the British short story by selecting the best examples from his extensive work. This edition includes: Critical introductionExtensive explanatory footnotesAuthor biographySuggestions for further readingSelection of contemporary reviewsExtracts from Roberts's interviews with The IdlerExtracts from Roberts's A Tramp's Note-bookThe full text of Roberts's lecture, The Sea in Fiction
Collier's
Vanity Fair
Indian Summer
Author: Emily Grant Hutchings
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"Indian Summer" by Emily Grant Hutchings follows its main character as she deals with the turmoil of life. Written in the early 20th century, the book is full of relatable emotions that come with being a woman who is used to storms, both physical and metaphorical.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"Indian Summer" by Emily Grant Hutchings follows its main character as she deals with the turmoil of life. Written in the early 20th century, the book is full of relatable emotions that come with being a woman who is used to storms, both physical and metaphorical.